Bono Performs History of Rock at KC Irish Pub
At downtown KC’s newest Irish pub from Friday August 8 - Thursday August 14, 2008, Irish singer songwriter Bono performs The Unplugged History of Rock.
Yes, you would be right in thinking that it isn’t actually Ireland’s Saint of the Perpetual Shades. But you’d be wrong if you thought that Bono rhymes with Ono as in Yoko.
Playing the P&L District’s Raglan Road Irish Pub is Shawn Brady of the International U2 Show Elevation.
Over the last decade I’ve learned that in Kansas City the word “international” either means “Canadian”, or is a blend of pancake. “Elevation - the International U2 Show”, of which Shawn Brady plays Mr Bono, comes out of Toronto and into the frying pan.
I’m told that all classics from that famous Irish band will be performed live and unplugged by Mr Brady in a section called The U2 Songbook, and also the best of classic rock and new rock including The Beatles, Coldplay, Neil Young, The Clash, REM, Johnny Cash, INXS, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Green Day and “all points in between”. It could be a long show as I reckon there are an awful lot of points in between.
Bono rhymes with “mono”, as in not stereo. Somebody not Irish once argued with me that was just the way those 4 letters were pronounced in Ireland but that elsewhere they were pronounced so that they rhymed with “Ono”.
Oh no, I said (see what I did there?), we too in Ireland would be inclined to rhyme those 4 letters with “Ono”, requiring an extra “n” to achieve the rhyme with “mono”, but in this particular case it’s a name derived from a Dublin shop. Just add “O” and there ya go.
Think of John and Don with an “O” added, though again I’d see your point if you pressed for that 2nd “N”, but that was just the way those Virgin Prunes fellas put it together, odd considering the thought that went into Dave-iD.
There are nightly performances of The Unplugged History of Rock at Raglan Road, and, I’m led to believe, no cover charge.
More on Bono and U2:
• Growing Up With U2 in Ireland
• Irish Music Changes Nothing
• Songs They Taught us in School in Ireland
• Part-time Irish Rock Star Learns Piano
• 30 Days in the Life of Bono
• Top 50 Conservative Rock’n’Roll Songs
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